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Sunday, June 26, 2016

CREOLE OVEN FRIED CHICKEN THIGHS

This recipe was in one of the local cookbooks that I gave to Big Brothers & Big Sisters. It is delicious! I'll be making this again.

Ingredients:

4 lbs chicken thighs, bone in, skin removedSeasoned Brine 1 quart (4 cups) water 1/4 cup sugar 3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 3 tbsp Tabasco sauce (or your favorite red pepper hot sauce) 2 tbsp seasoning salt 1 tbsp garlic powderFor the seasoned brine: Whisk together the water, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, salt, and garlic powder in large bowl until sugar and seasoning salt dissolve.Add chicken to seasoned brine and refrigerate, covered, for 1 to 8 hours. Don't brine longer than 8 hours or chicken will be too salty. about 4 hours is good.Discard the seasoned brine and rinse chicken well. Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Rinsing removes excess salt and the chicken must be dry for dry coating mix to stick.Preheat oven to 375-F. Adjust rack to middle position of oven.Creole Coating 2 cups uncrushed, unsweetened, corn flakes cereal (crushed down makes about 1 cup of coating) 2 Tbsp flour 1 Tbsp paprika 1 tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp ground white pepper 1/8 to 1/16 tsp cayenne red pepper (more or less to taste) 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp poultry seasoning 1/2 to 1 tsp seasoning salt (more or less to taste)Directions:Crush corn flakes in a 1-gallon zip lock bag with rolling pin. Do not crush to a fine dust, leave some small bits of flakes for a crispy coating on the chicken. Mix remaining dry ingredients together in small bowl and add to crushed corn flakes in zip lock bag. Shake to mix well.Spray each piece of chicken on both sides with cooking spray until damp enough for cornflake coating to stick. Place each oiled chicken thigh, one at a time, into zip lock bag and coat with crushed corn flakes and spices. Place coated thighs bone side down on baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Sprinkle any unused crushed corn flake mixture from zip lock bag over chicken thighs until they are all coated evenly. Spray each corn flake coated chicken thigh on baking sheet with more cooking spray just to slightly moisten coating. Be careful not to rinse off coating with the spray.Bake on middle rack of oven at 375 for 30 to 45 minutes or until internal meat temperature reaches 175 degrees or cook until juices from chicken run clear and meat near bone is no longer pink. Do not turn thighs over during cooking or coating may fall off.Featured July 4th 2016 on the last party at Cozy Little House ( Tweek It Tuesday)Featured 7/7/2016 on Marilyns TreatsFeatured 7/12/2016 on Oh My Heartsie Girl

36 comments:

This sounds so good. I used to make chicken with corn flake crumbs all the time. The brine sounds good. I used to marinate the chicken in salad dressing. I haven't made this is so long, maybe it is time to try cooking again. Linda, you must have been trying so hard to hole on to your cookbooks. What a hard item to give away. Hopefully someone who loves cooking as much as you do, will get them and cherish them as you did.

Lori- we did a turkey a long time ago and I really didn't like it. When I saw this the chicken recipe included a brine my hubby said maybe I should pass on this one. SO glad I didn't! This was a make again and hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Yum! This sounds delicious. I love a crispy crust on my chicken. I have been using crushed Ritz crackers lately, but cornflakes are a great idea! Thank you for sharing on Family Joy Blog Link-Up Party. Have a great week!

I love this recipe. Look forward to seeing it on my features list! Thank you so much for linking at #ThursdayFavoriteThings! I look forward to seeing what you share every week. Please come back for #OverTheMoon on Sunday night. Don't forget to comment your link #'s so I can be sure to visit and you get a chance to be featured!

Thank you for sharing this delicious recipe at the #RecipeSharingParty! I hope to see you next week. Pinned and Yummed. Please visit #OverTheMoon on Sunday or #WonderfulWednesday for more sharing fun! Don't forget to Comment your link #'s so I can be sure to visit and you get a chance to be featured! Stumbled as a bonus today!

These look so good! I am pinning for later!! Thanks for sharing with us at Wonderful Wednesday. Your amazing Creole Chicken will be featured at our next party! We hope you will stop by to see it and share with us again😊 Wishing you a great weekend - Christine @ Must Love Home